Jay Z’s Tidal app flops
Photo credit: @Beyonce Instagram
He may be one of hip hop’s biggest names, but that doesn’t guarantee success. Just a month following the launch of Tidal, a new music streaming service billed as “the first music streaming service that combines the best high fidelity sound quality, high definition music videos and expertly curated editorial,” Jay Z and a few of his A-list friends including Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys, Rihanna and wife Beyoncé, are facing defeat.
Two weeks after Tidal made its U.S. debut, iPhone top 20 download chart, the app nosedived out of the top 700, according to BGR. In other words, users prefer 700 other apps to the music mogul’s Tidal. The issue? The cost. Subscribers have the choice between forking over $10 a month for digital audio-quality, a format similar to Spotify or $20 a month for CD-quality sound. Turns out people just aren’t feeling it. And why would they with apps like Spotify and Pandora offering basically the same service for less and in many cases for free?
BGR also reports that as of April 20, its main rivals, Pandora and Spotify, landed No. 3 and No. 4 on the U.S. iPhone revenue chart, respectively. A first for two music streaming services hitting the top four in sales simultaneously.
And while Hov’s app could make a comeback over time, this rough reality check follows news that Tidal laid off 25 employees on Friday, April 17, including its founding CEO, Andy Chen. According to Business Insider, a memo from the company read, “We’ve eliminated a handful of positions and refocused our company-wide talent to address departments that need support and cut redundancies.”
welp
JZ =Poser what a joke
Actually it is a good idea, just the wrong platform.
Jayz is still a talentless hack that jock rides
Actually, I think is the right idea at the right time and at the right place, though not the right people
More like not the right price point.
Exactly! His fan base likes “free” stuff!
ahhh ……… the bozomooch mob………
They’ll get a bailout from B.O.
He can’t have his best friends take a hit. Time for taxpayers to revolt if that happens, because I find their so called Music Revolting.
The world needs another music streaming app why exactly?
Because Jay-Z needs to start making money again – can’t keep living off of Beyonce.
Maybe back to selling rock in Harlem is next?
Rock as in Roll or Rock as in Crack
A bit more talent and voice than Kanye. Both crappy voices without instruments playing.
Now you got something there. How do you find out if a performer sings lousy? take away the music track and hear them sing without it. Ever turn off the radio in the car when someone is singing. It sounds OK when there’s Music, but once that’s turned off and the person keeps singing, you realize your friend cannot hold a tune to save their lives.
what do you mean ‘the wrong platform’?
No, as an artist he’s legit. As a very wealthy person over-concerned about “potential” money he’s losing…he’s just a 1%er who’s a bit disconnected.
These 2 need to look after their child and stop with the thug stares
I won’t happen, but I’d *LOVE* to see this ugly, scowling former street thug/drug dealer returned to poverty, chased back to slinging crack on the sidewalk in Brooklyn or wherever sewer he crawled out of…
Why? Because he did some bad things when he was younger? And? People change. I did a lot of bad things when I was a teenager but that is definitely not the person I am today.
He hadn’t changed, that’s the point. He the same, just now wearing white gloves because he can.
What “bad things” did he do? You mean sell drugs? He claims he did, because he thinks that gives him street cred. He was just a fat black kid with no friends. He made all that other stuff up.
uuuuuuuuuh how about MURDER
Why? Because he’s an arrogant dick. The company I work for did some promotions/sponsorships with Jay-Z. He’s a complete asshat.
Because he is an arrogant, hate filled douche bag.
Doing some bad things? Selling drugs to your OWN people is the epitome of oppression and shackles people to lives full of poverty and despair. You are DEVALUING those people that he poisoned, let alone the children that were probably born to drug addicts, future subjects to welfare and trouble for the school systems, and the aftermath that comes with it. Your comment smacks like the rest of the ignorant, excuse-making, Leftist drones out there that never accept any personal responsibility. This man raps about cooking drugs, how he sold them on the street, and if he was a POSER some other rapper would’ve outed him by now. Has THAT happened yet?
I’m not an apologist for Jay Z however, the ills you are listing in the black community are not his fault.
They are the result of 50 years of Democrat policies that has brought this about. Yes, he profit from his songs that glorify this behavior but he didn’t start the behavior.
People freely take drugs because this is what they want to do. I wouldn’t condemn a man’s entire life base a part of his life. If Jay Z was still a thug he was beat the hell out Solange when she attacked him in the elevator.
“They are the result of 50 years of Democrat policies that has brought this about.”
+1
That happened after the Ray Rice incident. He knew better.
You sir have zero clue what it is you are talking about. I am absolutely NOT a leftist whatsoever. For all the BS you spew about personal responsibility you are not willing to hold those that took the drugs personally responsible because in the end THEY made the decision to smoke that rock.
I listened to rap for over 30 years so I do have more clue to what i’m talking about than you do. ARE you the type of Liberal that speaks of something that they know very little about, such as standing up for Islam without READING the [email protected]? If you are that type tread carefully lest you catch foot in mouth disease. People do make choices but people who struggle, have dire outlooks on life, are poor, are more prone to try to escape their station in life through “affordable” means such as smoking weed which, in many cases is a gateway drug. Beer would be another gateway drink to hard alcohol once a tolerance is built up. These people do have a choice and they are as guilty as the one who sells it to them for personal responsibility is an all encompassing application. The conservation was about what Jay Z did during his pre-stardom years, he was a drug pusher, AN OPPRESSOR and sold poison to his people.
Based on your post, I’m sure you were just as big a dimwit when you were young as you are now.
All you have is short dick talk…little troll.
You have projection syndrome, you penis obsessed sh*tstain.
You desperately what people to hear you. Too bad you have nothing of valve to say.
I see nothing in his post that demonstrates a critical lack of intelligence. Guess you’re just smarter than all of us huh?
Yeah that’s right because I absolutely resorted to calling the person I responded to names. That’s always a sign of intelligence.
jay – z is an avowed Satanist… pushing his beliefs on the public …which is a worrisome, but what is worse is his close relationship with Obama….so wtf is the president hanging around a Satanist….that’s very disturbing
Perhaps, you should ask Obama that question. Jay Z can’t hang around with the President if the President doesn’t invite him!
Too true.
Yes that necklace he has worn is super scary. Ordo Templi Orientis, known as OTO, Look it up
just did…ty…..but what does yoga have to do with it?….just wondering
OMFG are kidding me? Obama is a disciple of Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, Cloward & Piven, etc etc etc and is running the f*cking country into the ground via progressive policies and people are more concerned with what jay z does in his spare time.
So why do we have a president that immersed himself with socialists, communists, and uber progressives and made it to the white house via a complicit media……………..THAT is very disturbing.
Because, Obama hasn’t been able to hang with Satan himself. But he’s just a few more drone strikes on innocent families away from changing all that!
His success is somewhat qualified. The vast majority of money that he has made has been “earned” from a demographic that doesn’t have to prioritize their spending. They have subsidized food, subsidized phones, subsidized housing, virtually no taxes. As such, they have income that they can spend on JZ’s trash. If they had to pay full freight for all the things they’re getting for free, you can bet your bottom dollar that they wouldn’t be spending hard earned and sparse cash on that trash. I get it that “trash” is an opinion. My point is that if they didn’t have artificial money, they wouldn’t spend it on that kind of useless, frivolous garbage.
What demographic are you speaking of?
Lol, you’re nuts! Take a look at the faces in the audience of his concerts. You don’t sell tens of millions and reach the level of success he has attained through that demographic. But I’m sure you already knew that and just wanted an opportunity to spew your racist propaganda. Congrats! You got it off your chest. I’m sure you’re better off for it too.
He is worse now. Pay attention to the “medallion” he wears (I spotted it in a pic from an NBA game when he was court side) then look up what it means…it tells you volumes about him without knowing anything about his past.
Just because someone believes in some weird religion is not a reason to hate them.
It’s bit more then just weird. Google it.
He is worse now. Google “Five Percent Nation”, Jay-Z wears their “medallion”
Uh so? He believes in some weird crap and that is a reason to hate him? I am sure that your beliefs are different from mine but I don’t hate you.
James I bet as soon as you get out of prison you will change.
Nope missed prison dude. Although some of the things I was doing when I was young could have got me prison time I was fortunate enough to wise up and get my life straight.
Forget his rock-slinging days, hustling, pimping, whatever.
The person who signed Kanye should be shot. Jay-Z is laughable compared to that former-homo that sang a song about Gold diggers and then married one.
Sooooooooo, Kanye is a douche bag and that’s JZ’s fault?
He has a good idea, he just chose to build his app for a platform that can not take advantage of what he has to offer.
So, what platform should he had built?
The one I’m about to smoke him and the others with presently.
he is one ugly SOB
His face looks like a plunger.
I believe he’s fully demonically possessed…it changes facial features…check out earlier pictures of him and compare them to the present
That statement is a proven fact. Just look at the pictures of the devil; he used to be an angel but then got those pointy horns & a long pointy tail & turned red & stuff. Rumor has it he stole that trident he carries around from somebody in Brooklyn a long time ago, during a drug transaction or whatnot.
I can appreciate your sarcasm…and I wish it were otherwise….but google jay-z and Satanism, and do the same w beyounce…..we have to know what industries and corporations are doing to us…..this is a large part of the music industry. but check it out…..also, there are several well written texts on demonic possession that you should consider esp since santanic worship is now coming out of the closet…a good starter is ‘hostage to the devil’ by malachi martin….a priest, who takes 5 or 6 well documented cases and explores the person possessed, the priest that performed the excorsim, the family and friends of the possessed, and the demon involved-they relunctantly reveal themselves…then explore jay-z’s associations, his clothing line, his lyrics and put it into perspective
Well, unless he blows several hundred million dollars, that’s not going to happen. And somehow I think Beyonce will hold him off that. And if she can’t, then she’s personally worth tens of millions so she’ll be fine.
Yipes.
As if we didn’t know. Dre, he is not.
Fuck Jay-Z. Fuck Beyoncé. Fuck Kanye. Sick of all of them. I hope they lose a crap ton of money.
I want to meet you and shake your hand!
Surprising absolutely no one, hopefully JayZ wasn’t actually expecting Tidal to be a big hit.
nothing like a good old fashioned jay z song
“I Know What Girls Like”
(feat. Lil’ Kim, Puff Daddy)
[Verse One: Jay-Z]
Peep the scripts
Gold honey from the whips
Jumped out like YO!
Who the fuck you with
Flash the juice ’cause that’s the rule
Damn I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes ***
Natural – Can I get at you?
Saw a spot on the body look nice with a tattoo
With my name, but didn’t want to jump the gun
I Didn’t Know how many niggas was humping hon
I said I never seen a face like yours before
And I been around some cute whores before
That either me or my boys tore it up before
So I’m hoping you different
Let you push the 6
And give you a different life and
Baby if it’s right jump on it in the morning
And ride it ’til the night
Want to buy you real jury when it hits the light
Bitches are momentarily lose they sight
She said
[Chorus:]
I know what boys like
I know what they want
I know what boys like, boys like
I know what boys like
I know what they want
I know what boys like, boys like me
[Verse Two: Lil’ Kim]
So want a cutie with a booty like OW!
Deeper than the MOW!
Airy Shine like TADOW!
But I’m a real bitch so you know I do real things
Only real bitches live like queens – Get it?
Safety deposit in the walk-in closet
Marvel Forts is for matching Rolls Royce’s
In the driveway from Monday to Friday
I be the richest, shitting on these bitches
While chickens cluck giving up the butt
I blaze the cut with the daddy raw buff
You can call me a slut
Who gives a fuck
That’s fine nigga shit
I’m a good with mine
I can tell by your shoes you know what I want
Fuck a prenup give me half up front
My sex be the best so we split these costs
You can stop saying mine
And start saying ours
[Chorus:]
I know what girls like
I know what they want
They want to sex me
They think I’m sexy
I know what girls like, girls like me
I know what boys like
I know what they want
They want to sex me
They think I’m sexy
I know what boys like, boys like me
[Verse Three: Jay-Z]
Got the bomb place, fireplace John Blaze
Victoria Secret lingerie
Ice like Don King
The price was like 8 digits a long way, shit
Got the beachfront view
V1 too
Cop you one cop me one too
On the place, jetski’s park by the lake
No neighbors, make all the noise you want to make
Invite your friends over
Better make their way through
The Benz’s and the Rovers before they reach the door
Vacate, hey wait, a week or more
First class to and fro, freakin off
Got the ham things lot
Champaigne popped
Cruise around the world ’til the damn thing stop
Cop rembrandt, handle, pay the lot
Can’t complain, we balling, true or not?
[Chorus: 2x]
I know what girls like
I know what they want
I know what girls like, girls like
I know what girls like
I know what they want
I know what girls like, girls like me
I know what boys like
I know what they want
I know what boys like, boys like
I know what boys like
I know what they want
I know what boys like, boys like me
shakespeare, is that you?
The band “The Waitresses” want their lyrics back, J-Thief.
What are the rods for? (if that is what is in your hand)
They feature prominently in a couple of episodes of “The Simpsons”.
What poetry!
Brings a tear to the eye……..only one though
I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that I had a deeply spiritual moment reading that.
Sounds like something Mozart would write. lol
I hope he invested his own money.
He didn’t. He’s ugly as hell, but he’s a shrewd business man. He uses other people’s money for risky startups.
It’s the price.
I don’t think Tidal was ever intended to be successful. People should investigate deeper, probably a scheme hiding somewhere behind the scenes. I’m not a fan of JayZ, but I don’t think he was dumb enough to think Tidal would be successful.
If you’re out of touch you don’t have to be dumb.
If I wanted to hide a lot of money, spending a couple million on an app and storage isn’t going to do it.
Yeah right…. JZ wanted it to be a total fail. Ok, uh huh… sure. Keep telling yourself that. Then go put your backwards hat on and tell yourself you look cool.
LOL
Here is an economics lesson for JZ. You have to either offer far better service at the same price or the same service at a much lower price if you expect to pry people away from what they are using now. Failed and failed.
Was kind of obvious I think. When I first read about it and saw the price points I thought “That’s not going to work”.
agreed…unless you can get tons of people to buy anything at any price just because it has your name attached. maybe there is hope for us yet.
JZ a big name? Maybe a decade ago. What has he done lately other than visit Cuba and fail to stay there?
i thought they had their own wing at the white house?
got his azzzz whooped by his sister in law
You do realize that morons buy Air Jordan sneakers.
I detest the “music” the founders and money behind this personally produce, but, a month into my free trial, I like the CD quality downloads of other genres I do like. Now, the interface is bit klugey, yet I imagine that will even out over time. I may be a minority, but I am willing to pay for better sound than the crappy MP3 or even the 256 offered elsewhere. I’ll stick for awhile.
“may be a minority” as if your race has anything to do with purchasing a service, unless you prefer to be classified and marketed to like this website does.
i hope you’re trolling. they obviously meant in the minority relating to the people who like/dislike Tidal. as in, the majority of people dislike it, but he’s within the minority. You do know minority refers to more than race right??
You might want to re-read that, silly.
I meant “minority,” as in those few willing to pay a premium for premium sound quality.
JZ you thought your crappy service the future but your evil crap is coming to an end- yhou already sent enough souls to hell now its time to pay baby
it was a horrible idea to begin with. the market is already saturated with better streaming services.
What is with all of these celebrities and those stupid @ss witch hats? You think your down with the Devil? You think your fame is free? Have fun in Hell! -John
Take your lucky only once “beat” money and retire…
Who cares!
Jay Z. The jerk that had to comment to the world, “Hands up. Don’t shoot” yet needs both of his hands to manage his “pants-on-the-ground” problem. What a role model, but if Obama had a son…
JZ must think the audience for his “curated” material has the same money and taste he has.
If I am playing it at home, and I have a top of the line stereo to play it on then it would be awesome to stream it. But if I have to go through an iPhone or iPad, and its audio out connector, it really will not be worth it.
This app would work best on a home theatre PC with a high fidelity sound board, or if it exists a digital sound interface to a really good stereo.
So I would be interested, but it needs to stream to a device that can send the digital audio to a really good stereo. So an App for Windows 8/10 would work for me.
H to the haha V to the victoray———-finally something this dude touches gets the kind of reception it deserves….hope big pimpin spent a lotta that undeserved chedda……as a bonus this azzzzz kickin is something Jay can’t blame on the WHITEYS………
but he will blame racism
Who?
The poor fellow. I’m wet with compassion.
Probably because it was designed to drain the customer’s wallet instead of providing a public good at a fair price. White flight is happening all over America also, too many bad experiences to trust a gangsta.
Jay Z is one hell of a street thug business man……would not be surprised if he has not one dollar of his own money in this stinker and is somehow getting paid to endorse it whether it succeeds or not
Good! Rap is not music and these people are disgusting
Glad to hear it. I can’t stand him nor his wife.
Maybe he can get Obama to buy them all on the taxpayer dime.
Who listen’s to this crap anyway.
Ahhh-hahahahahaha!!!
Torrents.
ROCK N ROLL
Capitalism is the ultimate arbiter of value. It has no bias, no preference, no agenda.
Success is good however, failure is better because it teaches humility and to savor the sweetness of success.
This is great news. JZ is an idiot who loves to take advantage of other, young, idiots.
lol who cares there trash crack heads.
why do nig…s change their names, looking for respect. ha ha ha ha
wait people still pay for music?
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Jay-Z is a douche and people seem to be using their douche radar much more these days.
Rappers are annoying little dweeps. The only people I know that listen to that stuff are posers and clowns.
And the pants down clowns
A lesson in capitalism. Identify a market need and provide for that need… as good as or better than your competition, at a cost lower than you competition. If you can’t do that…
On a side note I hope the administration doesn’t pass an Executive Order forcing us to pay of this crap as part of some other service we have to pay for and don’t’ want… or… uses our tax money to subsidize “the poor”, who currently get free cell phones / service at our expense, in adding a free music service to their list of goodies.
You better look out for it in one of those bills they pass in the middle of the night or when Nancy Pelosi’s says we have to pass it before we can know what is in it!
I like the way you think Marie. Blinders off, eyes wide open to reality.
“Hands up,don’t shoot” is a lie that didn’t happen
hahahahahahaha.
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger D-bag.
it must burn him up that he’ll never have as much money as Dr. Dre.
you know that’s what this is all about, right?
I bet he feels “disrespected”. Oh cry me an effing river.
Leonard Pits in response to the Racist Torture/Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome. Never forget them or the 100s of thousands of others.
So much for talent…
“we’re only in it for the money ” posse rides again
POS rides again
hahaha sucker!
schadenfreude, anyone?
A legitimate pay to play service aimed at a group whose music genre idolizes and deifies criminal activity, rape, theft and demonizes business ownership and hard work. – fails at it’s debut.
Irony abounds.
Asian countries for Asians.
Black countries for Blacks.
but White countries for everybody?
That’s genocide.
Anti-racist is a codeword for Anti-White
Derp.
you sound like a frog
As soon as I saw that picture this song popped into my head…ahem…tweeee….
“New Country Corn Flakes,
New Country Corn Flakes,
Please by our corn flakes,
They’re made from coooooornnn…”
Everyone hoping he will go broke is just ill informed. He owns a music label, nba team, fashion line, vodka company and much more. He isn’t just some “dumb thug” like many are suggesting, he’s a brilliant and saavy businessman who has been successful in nearly all areas. That said, I’m not a fan of his, but credit is due for his success.
and a Luciferian. He is an elitist and part of the nwo, that is how he got his companies because they were given to him.
Yeah..ok..
I guess being “cool” doesn’t mean you have any business sense.
He’s only “cool” because kids were dumb enough to believe their handlers
Someone should have told this moron that most of us aren’t going to pay anything more than about $0 to listen to the crap music of today.
I feel really bad for the Luciferian.
I guess you can’t pay with an EBT card.
Good news always brings a smile to my face.
That guy always reminds me of Rochester on the Jack Benny Show. ” Iz zat chu Mistah Benny ? “
i would never fork over a penny to those vile people. fuuuck them.
guess he thought just being JZ was enough…LOL…
He’ll be broke and pan-handling in 5 years
Rap is the only “music” that can be played with a stick on a hollow log. How low civilization has fallen to call such primitive grunts “art” and such primitive grunters “artists”.
jz attempted to converge on greed, power and control…apple tried to control the music with u2’s latest album…downloading it free to everyone’s iPhone with its homosexual theme and co-inside with tom cooks announcement that he’s gay…did any one see the cover? a guy with his head on another guy’s crotch and in his underwear…..u2 got 20 mil and apple got the rights….that’s how corporate America is going to control the music…a taste of the future…new artists are going to have to sing and dance to whatever current political correctness is being required…..i’m pissed and bono is a sell out
A lot of jealousy on this thread. Go create something. Be useful instead of hateful.
I think I’d rather be like some minorities and just tear down something or laugh when it does go down.
That’s because the only thing you have going on in your life on a daily basis is what you’re told to do. Go get some business about yourself.
Unlike you, I don’t have a party telling me what to think and what to say, dimwit.
For your pleasure, I flag all your posts.
Of course coward. In the meantime go do something with your miserable life instead. You haven’t done a thing with your life and its obvious. Except get mad at people who are building things you want to break down because you don’t have enough creativity to add anything. You’re sad. Flag this too. Might be the only original thing you’ve done today.
Hey, I got something you can go do and it’s right up your racist ally. Go pester Ben Afleck to pay up reparations for his ancestors being slave owners. The boy’s got the filthy lucre, might as well go get your reparations. You know you want it, your fair share as long as only blacks are in on it. Kinda like affirmative action and voting for a president just because he’s black.
How DARE you pose as Chris Dorner the MURDERER of innocent people: In the city of Irvine in the evening hours, 28-year-old Monica Quan, and her fiance, 27-year-old Keith Lawrence, were found shot to death in Lawrence’s parked white Kia Optima, outside their condominium complex. Quan, an assistant women’s basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton,[18] was the daughter of Randal Quan, a former Los Angeles Police Department captain and lawyer who formerly represented Dorner during Dorner’s dismissal hearing from the LAPD. Lawrence was a campus police officer for University of Southern California.
He MURDERED the daughter of someone he had beef with at work? And her fiance, for WHAT? TAKE THAT PICTURE AND THAT NAME DOWN, YOU ROTTEN PUNK. Everything you just wrote, trying to be high and mighty, could have been said to the MURDERER Chris Dorner, may he burn in HELL along with you, and Gay Z.
So say an imbecile who goes by the name ChrisDornerIsComingForU
Are you kidding? Is your business murdering cops? GTFO.
Who are you to lecture anyone on hate, when you are posing as the very embodiment of insane hate. Shut up. Before the FBI kicks your door in, idiot.
Hateful? Like the MURDERER Chris Dorner, is he your hero, you effin punk? Create what–dead bodies? Is that what you advocate by using that sick SOB’s name and picture? Go kill yourself.
well obviously this is racist…..
The reality is Jay-Z is much too stupid to come up with this type of an idea on his own. He is simply a figurehead. His handlers make the actual business decisions.
“The Good Old Days” are gone for the popular music industry. I’d rather watch unknowns on youtube, producing simple honest music, instead of the autotuned kids on the radio. I will never pay for that hyped junk.
melodic music with melodic voice is out of vogue…..give it time, I think it will come back…a lot of white college kids are taking their parents old records and listening to them almost exclusively…it’s truly missed and will bounce back…I believe rap will go by the way of the disco ball
Kids now-a-days think some idiots on reality shows singing Man Eater are talented. All they are is a bunch of talentless losers ripping off talented people.
Kids now-a-days are short-changed. They think One Direction created One Way or Another. News Flash to these simpletons, that was Blondie who wrote and sang that and made it popular, brainless twits.
Not a surprise
LOL. I wonder if the few suckers that joined will get refunds.
If you listen on a regular basis to these two knuckleheads, you’re a moronic loser. Their music, if you can call it that, blows huge wads.
In order to enjoy this music you need subwoofers that are about a thousand times bigger than your brain.
Subwoofers a 1000 times larger than the brain of their acolytes would be the size of a walnut
Is this Jay z dude supposed to be someone talented and famous?
A room full of icons isn’t enticing enough, that’s the gimmick, Um Jay-Z people are smarter thank you think bro. He probably woke up and was like Yo Bee, lets get all our Iconic friends and monopolize the market….yea…no.
I’m JayZ, give me money for an overpriced streaming service.
I’m Beyonce, if you truly worship me, you’ll give me money for an overpriced streaming service.
I tried TIDAL for a while. Yes they may stream the music at 1192kbps, but since the source (mostly CD’s I’m guessing) never had that high a sound quality to begin with the resulting sound quality was just the same as XM or any other streaming source. Since I like choosing my music channels based on a genre, not a specific artist their music player didn’t always stream what I wanted to hear. Sorry JayZ your service fell short on many different aspects. Reboot and perhaps it will succeed?
Black isn’t cool anymore.
it’s a drag.
Listen to every available outlet for music that offers it for free while they last.
Then, pony up later if you have to.
I wouldn’t even pay 25 cents a month to this guy if that’s what he charged.
Camel face
womp womp
he does have big lips…
Just like Koko the gorilla.
Must be Racism™
The answer to all of this is Rdio. Hands down the best.
Screw JZ. Tech N9ne Bitches!
Should have let it be free for first 6 months for first 100K users. Get them hooked first if your content is so good.
Let me guess, we’re all racist now.
Who cares if they call ME a racist. He and his wife Bouncy, what role models. Unfortunately too many kids worship these two, they know it and all they want is their money and brain wash them. Pretty ironic since they hang with the prez, who happens to hates rich people.
Really, the President hate rich people? It’s the only people he hang around!
part of the problem is people don’t do their research and only tell half the story – including whomever wrote this article. there are TWO tiers. one is the exact same price as Spotify, the other is $19.99 for producers and extreme music lovers who spend hundreds on equipment, headphones, etc and would appreciate the enhancement. People heard “an extra ten dollars for the same streaming service as Spotify” and got scared off. I think it’s sad because he tried to do something to help the art industry. it’s bigger than the artists. they make their money from ticket sales. there are a lot of people who go into the production of the music we all love and consume, but they cannot afford to continue to do it if all these people who are willing to pay for stuff like bottled water (that most certainly should be free) complain about paying for something they became accustomed to getting for free due to illegal piracy. netflix had a movie streaming service, amazon started a streaming service. it was about offering an alternative. now because he offered an alternative it’s about the “rich getting richer.” Tidal was already offering intimate experiences with some of the artists (like J. Cole) that they may not otherwise get. I appreciate the effort. And anyone who is not a fan is most certainly allowed to have their opinion but wishing someone ill will and saying awful things about them is much more a reflection of you than it is of them. I wish you all love, you sound like you need it… badly! <3
Nice picture above, they look like the nightly cleaning crew.
What, the Walgreen guy
Hey, people pay way too much for stupid crap all the time, often because some worthless tool slapped his face on it. If idiots want to buy, let ’em.
And if a rich SOB who constantly cries about injustice takes a dive, well hey, you had something to laugh about today.
this the same dude that sold his sportswear for millions b4 he was legal.
When I first read the promo I didn’t think it would work because the focus was on the artist instead of the customers. It came across to me as something I could patronized because they own it and their getting ripped off and I should help them keep their profits. I’m not their mothers! I don’t care about their profits.
However, I do care about what I’m getting for a service at a price I’m willing to pay. Why should I can about multimillionaires who make more money on a commercial than I’ll probably ever see in a life time? Make me want your service more than I want another’s.
For Pete sake. He is a niggerino, did anyone expect this to be a success??
Follow the money. When one brother finds it, there is a hundred more brothers that appear and want their cut.
did anyone not see this coming, aside from jazzy?
the artist who sided with him obviously, didn’t see it coming!
Jay-Z has ever had any talent in the first place.
Jay Z’s steaming pile of . . .
oh streaming, – sorry
Who’s jz?
Mr. Bionce
Jay Z, another dumb nigg with a lot of money made peddling his garbage “lyrics” to the dumb ghetto black folk who cry “Mofocka police brutalitaz” every day!
Sick and tired of these whiny and dumb motherfuckers.
Forgot “beat my hoe”
What is Hov?
Can’t think of too many black owned businesses that succeed.
The DMV, maybe? Is that a “success”? It never seems to go away, so it must be.
I am still pissed that JZ forced Beyoncé to have ugly babies.
If the rest of us were only as ‘smart’ as Jay-Z he wouldn’t be a failure right now.
Sorry, Mr. Mogul.
Bush’s fault — Just ask Kanye — sniffle sniffle….
Global Warmings fault, and raycissssss somefing.
He got 700 problems…he needs to Get his bud kanye out there saying he invented it cause he a genius and its the best music app OF ALL TIME!
Where’s Tidal? In the box, to da left, to da left.
Yeah well newsflah: jayzee’s moozic sucks and he’s a racist fuck to boot. So go figure.
he was praying he invented something like beats by dre. $$$$$$ set back – a ton.
jay-z has a new song — i got my ass spanked hard, real hard, blah blah blaah………………… mf
But it’s Number 1 In Cuba.
He should stick to his former vocation, Street level drug dealet.
It’s because we are all racists in 3..2..1….
network protocols be rayciss
SHHHHEEEEEEEIIIIT !!!
Booooooooooooom! Ya’ll got lit up cuz!
I pay for google play music for only $7.99 a month with no complaints. I like it. I think it is very good. I think there probably is some people that don’t like it. I think she likes it to because she always uses it and never says anything bad. That’s what I like about her, she is really nice. She is allot nicer then most women out there, I would think. I could be wrong but I don’t think I am. I am really smart, that’s what she told me. I like to think I am. That’s what make google play music so good. I think I love it. I am off to listen to some more music. I like music.
If this venture had been taken on by artists in the music industry who actually struggle because of the way music is delivered to people now, rather than a bunch of millionaires complaining they aren’t getting the profits they should because of apps like Pandora, maybe this would have stood a chance. Maybe more people would have gotten behind it. I have a hard time getting behind something created by mega rich celebrities to get richer.
INTERNET BEEZ RAYISS !!!
“Jay Z and a few of his A-list friends including Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys, Rihanna and wife Beyoncé, are facing defeat.”
So it’s all ghetto rap crap? No wonder it’s dead.
Anything with this guy’s name on it is something I avoid.
Couldn’t of happened to a nicer crack dealer. Jay-Z is garbage. He is incredibly over rated as a rapper and artist.
I would pay $20/month but not to a member of the “Five Percent Nation”.
Serves the devil worshippers right.
Why would anyone pay for any app?
Everything is available for free if you know how to look.
Does Jay Z really believe people want to pay to hear Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and him 24/7?
Not on your life!
the rape rap rapier.
Does Tidal accept EBT ?
LOL
Looks like a Booty Flop instead of the Booty hop
Tidal was a music streaming service? I thought it was an org where a bunch of d-bag pop stars sat around a table and talked about the coming TIDAL waves caused by man made global warming
I’m sure his Bro Obama will start making appearances on the Hip Hop sites – countries gone to carp – might as well help a best Bro – while shoving it to all Americans.
I wonder if Illegal Hispanics dig that Cop Killa sht?
Won’t somebody please think of the innocent “artists” that signed on as an owner. They can barely afford to feed their children. Madonna’s $800 million will barely be enough to keep up with her plastic surgery bill over the next few months.
A brief history of Tidal: http://newslines.org/tidal/
Well, it looks like a flop in a streaming app is one of the 99 problems, but at least a b!tch is still not one.
There is no fidelity worth $20 a month. Buy the CD’s if you are an audiophile.
How many more of these sites do we need? Like opening a new burger joint next to McDonalds
He was banking on the hope that people are really, really stupid and would pay anything just to “hang” with JayZ. Wrong!
This is my analysis of the promo video where he had Madonna, Nikki Minaj, and various other ‘artists’ meet like they were doing something:
Joyless. Totalitarian. “Taking a stand.” Against what exactly? The appropriation of political metaphors is absurd. This is the opposite of fun. The opposite of vitality, of the living, of rock n roll. Not a single independent artist could be bothered to be invited? I didn’t hear a note of music, just the goose-stepping throb of jack boots, marching like fascist bundled sticks and hammers, into oblivion. A cold corpse of a once breathing living artist, laid out in the modern morgue of soul-crushing technology. No end-user presented. A huge symbolic oversight. Where and who is the consumer of this product? What do they look like, where do they live, how do they interact with this product? What does the product itself look like? How will I recognize it when I see it?
Why was there no song produced for this piece? Why no reference made to musical break-throughs–Elvis on Ed Sullivan, the Beatles landing in America, Rapper’s Delight, Johnny Cash giving us the finger, The Who destroying the equipment, the Sex Pistols in your face, the DIY punk band copying their cassette covers at Kinkos, making flyers for their show by hand? Then segue into the newness of this. It would lend it a narrative, all nonsense of course, but at least it would demonstrate the process and execution of music, and the constant rebirth it affords to the artist and the audience. I saw a boredroom of mostly has-beens being boring, doing boring things, sitting, speaking into a microphone when they are all seated together at a table, and no image whatsoever of the audience, of the person who puts on a record, turns on the device, and listens. Want to know why the old Maxwell cassette tape advertising photo of the guy in the chair, ‘blown away,’ is iconic? Because it showed the listener, not the performer. It showed, with no words, the experience of the listener. He needed no face even, no facial expression conveyed, because the image was clever enough to symbolize the experience of the person who used the product. This ad showed me no product, no music, no human being using the product, nothing but a pack of boring sounding, boringly dressed, stinking rich, non-musical people sitting at a table.
Why should I want it? All I hear is sales pitch crap from the so-called artists in
this promo. This is a product for them, not for me, for their benefit, not for me. Who produced this piece, and how much were they paid to communicate nothing?
Napster was revolutionary. And the music industry destroyed it. They’ve done everything in their power, including prosecuting grandmothers and little girls for downloading “You Are My Sunshine,” to place limitations on how the audience consumes music. Think we’ve forgotten that RIAA? They fought technology tooth
and nail every step of the way, in order to control control control. This represents nothing to me but more control. This is Apollo, this is not Dionysus. This is death, not life. This is silence, not music.
wow, good stuff.
Wow. That nose-dived quick. Premature Tidalization.
Okay, I’m going to talk about Tidal and and Tidal ONLY. Jay Z was correct in that there was a market for high fidelity music and sound. Not that MP3 crap. But he misunderstand the sophistication of his very own audience. Kids and the general public. The Hip Hop market can survive without the higher fidelity of lossless formats like .wav and .aiff because the music sounds pretty much the same with the smaller compressed formats. The only time you really hear the difference is with big orchestral music or popular music that has a lot of clear singing or instrumentals. Most of the general public can’t tell the difference and let’s face it, the average Smart phone user is NOT a music aficionado to the extent that they will pay more for higher fidelity. I am one of those music fanatics who will pay more for good quality audio, but I’m not a Hip Hop fan (nor a fan of Techno, House, or speed metal, all genres which relay less on crystal clear fidelity than the beat or other sounds which are okay when distorted). He was right in that there IS a demand for it. He just miscalculated who the market was. It certainly is not the people who purchase his music, it seems.
Greedy 1%’ers get a slap of reality. Your price point is waaaaaay too high.
That’s what that anti-American communist Cuba loving racist whitey-hater gets.
It’s still funny and so true pertaining to one of our founding fathers, (Ben Franklin) “A fool and their money are soon parted”. LOL
And this is a very good example where the EGO got way ahead of the TALENT.
Someone saw him coming a mile away.
well, trying to charge people for a re invention of existing things, um kinda like taking someone elses music changing the speed adding a electronic bassline and making up a few nursery rhymes… wonder why it flopped? kind of like how every album sells less and less after the first one.
What’s a Jay Z?
Nice globalist flag shirt there Beyonce. NWO
I guess he didn’t think about his fan base. They like “free” stuff!
lawl.
People ain’t stupid. They know Bey and Jay have a ton of money as it is and they don’t want to help the couple line their pockets anymore than they have to. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a lot of nerve.
When Jay-Z said “I rape and pillage your village, women, and children” I thought he crossed the line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0637GjJDvk
You can take 2 hoodrats out of the ghetto, but you can get the smell out of them.
LOL
“……….and expertly curated editorial,………………”
I think it’s funny ‘cuz he’s a loser and I get my music free. Only a sap pays for that sh*t.
Grand opening grand closing-Jay-z
Jay ZzzzZZZZZzzzz…
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
The art of the song has been diminished to a heavy beat, a few grunts, pre-assembled choruses, and auto tuned lead singers. There is real music out there, but it gets no promotion. There is no more local FM radio to join a community together to develop their own “sound” (Philly soul, Detroit rock, southern blues). Everything is available everywhere, but it’s the cut and dry, formulaic pseudo-pop that get all off the media promotion, and I think people are getting tired of it.
Shock….gasp….shriek…
You mean Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Justin Beiber, Britney Spears, Rhianna, et al, are NOT real artists???? Do you dare suggest that they may be Studio Creations? Are you saying that they are simply pretty faces surrounded by synthetic sounds, prerecorded choruses and auto-tuned vocals that cover the fact that they have ZERO talent????
Next you’ll try to convince me that “country” music has devolved into the same old, same old formulaic Bro Country????
Yep…that’s what I’m sayin’.
Also, No IRS!
JZ ” I programz dis mah selfz wit compewtahz.” ” computah, playz music”.
i guess when it comes to making money he is down with the 1% HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
ITS probably a vast right wing conspiracy….hahahhahaha
JZ…who is to blame…the Ferguson cops…G Bush…hello
Racist negros,,,
Lol y so serious
Priceless photo…
We be looking hard up in da loove mur-zeeum. Whodat fat white lady be???
Waiting for Al to chime in….
Why is Taylor Swift not criticized too? She was probably the biggest endorser of this scam.
She is Teflon coated. She leads the pack of Talentless, studio-created “singers” yet both the Pop and Country worlds are tripping over themselves to include her as one of their own.
I’ll be the LAST
All I have is, GOOD!
What a punk, no talent, damn sure can’t sing! He uses beyonces money to further himself! Sounds like an uneducated, drug selling drop out of a worthless black boy!!!
Maybe his bud Obama will release bailout funds….
Maybe Jay-Z’s buddy Obama can sign an Executive Order giving him some big tax breaks and/or subsidies.
99 reasons why Tidal has problems….
Ni66App…..I don’t think so. They so often forget that they are only 13% of the population.
why would the sheep embrace a music app that was built by and for artists and that tries to pay artists a living wage?
spotify is economic slavery for artists and musicians.
Mumford? Is that you? Sons???
What’s a “living wage?”
a living wage = rent, food, utilities.
spotify “royalties” are a sick joke.
spotify is not a streaming service. it’s a download replacement service. where users can build playlists and listen to the same songs endlessly, that is not streaming. streaming is like old fashioned radio. when you can pick a song or 1000 songs and listen to them on demand, that is a download replacement and the artist should be getting paid a comparable royalty.
if you download a song on itunes the songwriter gets 9.1 cents.
if you stream a song on spotify it’s .00001 cents.
you do the math.
and there aren’t enough streams to even come close to the royalty for the download.
Yea you’re correct. Personally I dislike these 1%’s & especially Kanye’s continually inflating fat head. I usually seed their music & pay for the music I like after I stream sample it. They have all they need & should be happy. How much more gold shall they have?
So Jay Z thought that millions of people would rush out to buy his more expensive streaming app that doesn’t offer anything that all the other (cheaper) streaming apps don’t already offer, all because… He slapped his name on it? Who didn’t see this fail coming from a mile away?
Knee Grows can’t afford 10 bucks a month.
One thing that didn’t flop was that quality crack rock Jay-Z use to sale. I’m honestly not surprised it failed given how close of a relation you have with Obama. The president who was accidentally concieved when his mother dragged off a truck stop bathroom.
It’s so sad how devalued music has become. America deserves the cr*ppy music that’s out there because they won’t pay for music like they used to.
Jay-z sucks.
Excellent news. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer dooxhbagdumbfuk …
Why is it so hard to get basic facts right? Whether a fraternity gang rape or Tidal’s debut date, RS has absolutely dropped the ball lately. Tidal debuted in the US before Jay-Z invested. Jay-Z re-launched it. A re-launch is not a debut.
given time this will catch on and all of the critics will be silenced. Artists creating music are being burned at every turn. Ludicrous insurance premiums at live shows, massive sales losses due to piracy, and now the threat of the Marvin Gaye effect, where if your song sounds like soul Marvin could have made you must pay up. Pandora and other music services treat the artists like unnecessary problems in the supply chain when in fact they are the reason the services exist. I believe a large number of listeners will come to the conclusion that by using the old model they are aiding and abetting the theft of the artists livelihoods and will ultimately pay the price Tidal is asking. Tidal’s problem stems from starting from the absolute top of one genre in the hopes of trickle down support later. Tidal will not be profitable until a wide array of genres are on board, and smaller bands begin to use the service as a distribution platform. Jay Z, Kanye, etc. don’t need distribution, they get it for free. Generally speaking people understand right v. wrong, and when the various leaders of the hundreds of music genres sign on and state their case, basically we worked hard to get this art out, please pay us a fair wage, it will succeed. Then racist rats like Drudge and Rush will move on to targer another person who doesn’t bow to them.
“… expertly curated editorial …”
Not interesting, well written articles? I’m reminded of women’s skin cremes — if I say that it has serum of [whatever] then I can triple the price.
I wish Jay would have gone out on top like he said he would after the Black Album.
No idea who this guy is or why I would want another service that does the same thing a bunch of services already do
lol, he didn’t realize that his target demo doesn’t like to pay for anything. Actually they prefer to get free stuff because they can exist.
Jay Z & Co’ = Deep pockets. Pandora and Spotify, etc = DeepER pockets!
N1ggers can’t afford 10 bucks a month for Tidal, but can afford to troll WorldStar for 4 hours per day.
Tru dat. SHEEEIIITT
He needs to invent a chimp-wrangler app for Fergustan
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